Rains from Nicole douse eastern U.S.

Homes are damaged and collapsed after the shore on which they stood was swept away following the passage of Hurricane Nicole Thursday in Wilbur-By-The-Sea. (REBECCA BLACKWELL/Associated Press)
Homes are damaged and collapsed after the shore on which they stood was swept away following the passage of Hurricane Nicole Thursday in Wilbur-By-The-Sea. (REBECCA BLACKWELL/Associated Press)

WILBUR-BY-THE-SEA — Heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Nicole covered the eastern United States from Georgia to the Canadian border Friday while hundreds of people on a hard-hit stretch of Flor…